Just Politicking

Join us as we chat with Oriana Powekk and Rep Felicia Brabec about education funding and childcare. The need for affordable childcare and fair pay for childcare workers. We, Just Politicking... 

DSP, is grateful to have an in-depth and real conversation about, Defunding, Abolishing or Re-forming the police. What's in a name. We welcome Sherrif Jerry Clayton, Dez Simmons, and Ryan Henyard. 

Thank you for starting your new Year with US!!!! 

In Washtenaw County Prosecutor Eli Savit and Chief Assistant Prosecutor Victoria Burton-Harris are blazing a trail in Sex Work advocacy with their new policy, yet how do those who are Sex Workers feel about this? On this show we have the opportunity to hear layered perspectives and understand a little more about Sex Work! 

During this whirlwind of a year the uprisings in city after city across the U.S have brought up the trope of the Outside agitator and the question. What is an ally exactly?  On this episode we hope to explore this. For some, the concept of allyship is very much layered. For others ...not so much. 

Our Federal Administration continues to bully states using our children as pawns in this game.

In November 2018 with roughly 56% of voters supported prop 1..  the state of Michigan then became one of 11 states to legalize marijuana. April 6th, 2019 was the largest Hash Bash in History 10,000 people came out in celebration of MI becoming one of 11 recreational use states. Among the speakers, John Sinclair, the former leader of the White Panther Party and catalyst to Hash Bash.  The ballot initiative explicitly sets parameters for the allocation of funds collected through recreational sales. Yet even with this victory legislatively there are still ever pressing issues that put individuals who use now legalized cannabis in the state of MI at risk of being rotated into the criminal justice system.  While members from the Veterans Group and testimony from U.S Veterans who use cannabis to treat various mental health disorders such as PTSD think they can breathe a sigh of relief with the legalization of recreational usage. "Big Gretch" as she's affectionetly called in Michigan, signed into law roadside drug testing for Marijuana. Following in the pattern that shows that legalized states aren’t always the most “liberal” when it comes to the small print. Lets learn about it.

Just....UGH!

What is respectability politics really? Is it code switching? Is it the concept of "professional?" What is it? Let's talk about it.

What is it about the perceived conservative culture of Blackness and Black households that often leads to clutched pearls when topics of sex, dating and intimacy are all on the table? Meanwhile we can always find that one Auntie that has been there done that ...and would HIGHLY recommend.

Then you have us… the new wave of black feminist who put it on the table and will question your discomfort. Why do black feminists push against sexual respectability?

“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.” – Bell Hooks

“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” – June Jordan

Across the United States, there is a point of disagreement. As we are preparing to open “Non-essential businesses and services” some community members are concerned while others not. The heaviest part of this argument some of us have yet to dig into and have hardly discussed. Is it the health and wellbeing of others, that is leading to the reopening of an economically strapped Nation, or is it the Spirit of Capitalism?